[This might possibly contain Eureka season 3 spoilers, I’m not sure]

I love the show Eureka, which means Husband is now required by law to love the show Eureka. I think one of the shows charms is that any type of technology is possible in the universe of Eureka, and they never bother to pause and awkwardly offer an explanation. We’ve all agreed to suspend our disbelief and we all live happily ever after.

We just started watching season 3, and at the end of the second episode a character is watching an old filmstrip of an A-Bomb test in Eureka. She does a doubletake as she reads the label on the film canister. The date is 1936 (or maybe 1938 – the image was a little grainy). The first A-Bomb test at Alamogordo, New Mexico was in 1945 so this is a big discovery for this character. But she’s missing the big picture – that’s obviously not the only secret advanced technology they had in Eureka in the 1930s. The label instructed anyone finding the canister to contact the Department of War is the seal was broken, because the film was top secret. The phone number was a 202 number, which is authentic as far as it goes, being the current area code for Washington, DC. The area code system wasn’t developed until 1947 and it wasn’t implemented until 1951.

I’ve got to get out more, I think, because I knew that right off the top of my head. That can’t possibly be healthy.